The Teacher Quotes

“You know things are seriously bad when even ice cream doesn’t help.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“You like spending time with your books more than you like spending time with me. I don’t think it was true, but if it was, could anyone blame her?”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Digging a grave is hard work.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“But we’re never going to be able to be friends again. Things will never be the way they used to be between the two of us. Not since Hudson helped me kill my father.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I recite to myself the poem he once wrote for me many years ago, back when I was fifteen years old and he was my English teacher”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“If you’ve never been buried alive, I don’t recommend it.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I am so lucky. I have a beautiful house, a fulfilling career, and a husband who is kind and mild mannered and incredibly handsome. And as Nate pulls the car onto the road and starts driving in the direction of the school, all I can think to myself is that I hope a truck blows through a stop sign, plows into the Honda, and kills us both instantly.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Every time I think I’ve experienced the worst day yet, there is a new winner.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“And as I put the finishing touches on my husband’s grave in the woods, I recite to myself the poem he once wrote for me many years ago, back when I was fifteen years old and he was my English teacher fresh out of college who swore to me I was his soulmate: Life nearly passed me by Then she Young and alive With smooth hands And pink cheeks Showed me myself Took away my breath With cherry-red lips Gave me life once again”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“She’s just lucky that Nate sees something in her, because God knows I don’t.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Not since Hudson helped me kill my father.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I remember when I was a little kid, I felt like anything that was wrong, my mom could hug me and make it right again. But there is no way for her to make any of this right again. Part of growing up is figuring out that your parents don’t have that ability anymore.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Sometimes I try to kid myself that I’m an adult now, but how can I be an adult when I still feel fifteen half the time?”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I have eaten lunch alone every day”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“We never left it in the trunk after all.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“If I were a cat, I would have peed on him, but since I’m a human, I plant a kiss on his lips that is markedly steamier than our usual three kisses per day.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I imagine dying is like standing on the precipice of that abyss, knowing that you will fall in at any second.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“He just called me his soulmate. It’s wild, because I feel the exact same way, but I would have thought I was imagining it if he hadn’t said it. “You can’t help who you form a connection with. Right?”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“And as Nate pulls the car onto the road and starts driving in the direction of the school, all I can think to myself is that I hope a truck blows through a stop sign, plows into the Honda, and kills us both instantly.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“She says all the right stuff”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“of here.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I wrote a poem when I was six,” he says. “For my mom, for Mother’s Day. She hung it up on the refrigerator, and it was there for years, so I still remember it. Let me think. I love my mom, and I know why. She makes me food so I don’t die.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Annabel Lee,’” I say without hesitation. I know it’s contained in the book of poems on his desk, but that’s not why I said it. I have always loved that poem. It’s beautiful, haunting, and romantic all at once. I can recite every word of it from memory.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Well, not everything. I mean, I’m not a complete idiot.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“take the most satisfaction in the fact that her feet are bare. My wife had an unhealthy obsession with shoes, and it is an apt punishment for her crimes to spend all of eternity in her bare feet.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“As I squeezed the life out of my wife, I could see that fear in her eyes. I could see her standing by the abyss, terrified of dropping in. She has nobody to blame but herself.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I know about you and Addie Severson,” I blurt out.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“If only Mrs. Bennett weren’t around. It would be so much”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I don’t even know what part is my favorite. I love the excitement as I’m bringing them to the counter and then as the clerk is ringing them up and the anticipation that they will soon belong to me. Or setting them up inside my closet, neatly lined up next to all my other shoes. And of course, the first time I get to wear them outside the house. I may be plain, especially compared to my husband, but shoes like this make me feel glamorous. Like I might actually be attractive enough to be married to the gorgeous Nathaniel Bennett.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“She still thinks she was the one who killed Eve. If I told her the moon was made of green cheese, she would believe me.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher